appetite classification cynic enrich recommendation repetitive The British (1) for romantic novels has been confirmed in recent statistics about the most frequently borrowed novels in public libraries. In the list published in The Guardian, more than 200 of the top 250 books were (2) as either romantic novels or thrillers, with a preference for the former. The plots may be (3), if not always exactly the same, but the public's desire to keep reading them doesn't seem to stop. The usual explanation given by (4) is that this kind of "escapist" reading is the way that ordinary people (5) their boring lives. But there are also thousands of books in libraries which never get borrowed. In a 2010 survey the chief librarian in Cardiff discovered that ten per cent of books had never been borrowed. He made a(n) (6) to take all books off the shelves which had not been borrowed for more than eight years.